CBS Forced CNET Staff to Recast Vote After Hopper Won 'Best in Show' at CES

On Friday, news broke that CNET had been forced by its parent company CBS to remove the Dish Network’s Hopper set-top box from its “Best of CES” awards due to ongoing litigation between the two companies. CBS has been battling the Dish Network in court over the Hopper’s ability to skip past commercials automatically (NBC, ABC, and Fox are also taking action).

CBS Interactive representatives told The Verge that the Hopper with Sling had been “withdrawn from consideration” from the “Best of CES” awards due to CBS’s lawsuit with Dish; that the ban